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MY chief reason for again intruding on you is for the purpose of supplying some omissions in Prof. Newton's quotations from Prof. Baird's first Report. In this Prof. Baird speaks of the destructive agency of the blue-fish. He states that about a million and a quarter of these fishes are caught annually on the New England coast, but that any one who has watched the blue-fish there must feel convinced that not one in a hundred of these fishes is caught; he allows twenty fish of other kinds as being devoured or mangled by each blue-fish daily, and then goes into a calculation of the thousands of millions of fish which must be destroyed by the blue-fish. I am writing this from memory, but I believe I am correct. Prof. Baird then says (I give this verbatim), p. 23:—“Indeed I am quite inclined to assign to the blue-fish the very first position among the injurious influences that have affected the supply of fish on the coast. Yet, with all this destruction by the blue-fish, it is probable that there would not have been so great a decrease of fish as at present but for the concurrent action of man.”
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HOLDSWORTH, E. Sea Fisheries. Nature 15, 198 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015198b0
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